Linked Open Data for Environmental Protection in Smart Regions – the New Challenge for the Use of Environmental Data and Information.

This paper will introduce the specific objectives of the recently initiated project SmartOpenData - “Linked Open Data for Environmental Protection in Smart Regions” (SOD project) that is supported by Seventh Framework ENV.2013.6.5-3: Exploiting the European Open Data Strategy to Mobilize the Use of Environmental Data and Information. The main concept of the project is to create a Linked Open Data (SOD) infrastructure (including software tools and data sets) fed by public and freely available data resources, existing sources for biodiversity and environment protection and research in rural and European protected areas and its national parks. The aim of the SOD project to develop real proposals for building a SOD infrastructure for biodiversity and environment protection in European protected areas that satisfy the requirements of four kinds of target users: public bodies, researchers, companies (also small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and citizens. The SOD project will focus also on how the SOD Initiative can be linked with the INSPIRE directive, GEOSS Data-CORE, GMES, completed European scale Geographic Information System (GIS) projects (like a Habitats project, which defines models and tools for managing spatial data in environmental protection areas), and external third parties, as well as how it can impact economic and sustainability progress in European environmental research and protection. The key elements of the project will be five target pilot projects in related areas (agro forestry management, environmental research and biodiversity, water monitoring, forest sustainability and environmental data re-use), where harmonization of metadata, improvement of spatial data fusion, as well as visualization and publication of the resulting information according to user requirements will take place. Key words: Linked Open Data, Geographic Information Systems, GIS, INSPIRE directive, environmental data, natural resources, sustainable development and research

On Digital Economy Issues Looking From the Information Systems Viewpoint

This paper is devoted to the digital transformations and digital economy programs. In particular, we are considering programs for the transition to a digital economy in the Russian Federation. It is obvious that telecommunications represent the basis for digital transformations. The paper discusses the software development and mathematical modeling issues relating to the program of Digital Economy, in particular, "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation". The main focus of our review is an information infrastructure. As examples of digital transformation, we are considering the largest information systems in the US. It seems to us that the lessons of their implementation are applicable to Russian problems. We discuss the movement from circuit switching to packet switching and some challenges of transformation. We consider information network interfaces (control points) and discuss Federal Enterprise Architecture, namely, e-Government. Particular attention is paid to issues of cybersecurity and to the issues of system modeling, which, in our opinion, are greatly underestimated